When I traveled through time and became a chief, I ruined the system.

A man came to him. This man's name was Huike. Huike later became the second ancestor. This Huike wanted to find Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma didn't quite believe that you really came to me. In order to express his strong desire to seek Luo Xiaofei's method, Huike actually broke his left arm.

After breaking his left arm, Bodhidharma saw his sincerity and communicated with him. As a result, Huike said to Bodhidharma: "I feel uneasy, and I beg you, Master, for peace." I pray to you, Master, to help me feel at ease.

Bodhidharma said, it’s good to have peace of mind. It’s good to have peace of mind. Give me your heart and I will give you peace. This was Bodhidharma's answer to him. It's good to have peace of mind: "Give me your heart, and I'll be with you!" Huike replied: "What you want from your own mind is unattainable." You asked me to give you my heart, take it out and give it to you, but I can't find him. Bodhidharma immediately replied: "I feel at ease with you." I have helped you feel at ease.

You can find this kind of dialogue in "Five Lanterns Huiyuan", one of the koans of worshiping the Guangming Sect. We need to take part, right? This sentence put forward by Bodhidharma is very powerful. If you want to feel at ease, you can just give your heart to me and I will help you feel at ease.

He asked Huike to take out his heart, but Huike couldn't find it. This was a serious matter. He directly said, "The heart of desire is something that cannot be obtained." Bodhidharma comes in one sentence and is not long-winded. "Be at peace with you." I will put your mind at ease, and Huike immediately realized it.

What do we usually want to have peace of mind about? In fact, it is all "thoughts". For example, let’s say I am an associate professor. Suppose, it has been ten years since I became an associate professor and I have not yet been promoted to professor! So sad. If I can't be promoted to professor next year, I will retire as an associate professor, you know? We are uneasy about this thing and that, and we have all kinds of thoughts that cannot be settled. In fact, they are not the mind, but thoughts.

So this Bodhidharma told Huike that even if you take out your heart, he can't take it out. He found that all the things he wanted to install were these and what? The ups and downs, birth and death are just "thoughts". Since you know you can't find your heart, I'll help you find it. Hui Ke has a great enlightenment, a great enlightenment behind his words.

Think about it, where does "reading" come from? Thoughts originate from the heart, but we should not take them seriously. If these thoughts bring us troubles, what we need to find is the source of the mind itself. The mind does not need to be at ease, but the usage of the mind is wrong and it leads to delusional thoughts. Okay, here's the gist of the problem. That is to say, the mind has two uses, one is used to bring out troubles, and the other is used to bring out wisdom.

Therefore, Luo Xiaofei Tuo's thoughts, especially his later teaching of the Heart Dharma, gave rise to the first germination of the Guangming Sect, which was the Lingshan Dharma Conference.

At that Lingshan Dharma Assembly, Luo Xiaofei suddenly stopped talking about the Dharma and held up flowers and smiled, right? The Venerable Kasyapa underneath smiled knowingly. What is this moment called? Heart to heart.

It is called the first transmission of the Heart Dharma, and what is transmitted is the Heart Dharma. This opens up the source of worshiping the Guangming Sect, and opens up the source of worshiping the Guangming Sect.

Therefore, the thoughts of Luo Xiaofei's teachings have entered Sanyang. At this time, the people of Sanyang really have to face a problem of peace of mind. The decline of cultural life, in the realm of Taoist thought, actually the heart cannot be at peace. What can they be?

This is called "going beyond famous teachings and letting nature take its course", which goes beyond the famous teachings of Guangming University, right? We are just living a natural and carefree life, but our hearts are actually not at peace either. Shakespeare himself understood this best.

When Shakespeare was a boy, he wanted to be a sage and learn from sages. Later, I heard another scholar, a master-level scholar, tell him that you can learn from Cheng Zhu and Neo-Confucianism, and there is a way to follow the path of learning from sages and sages. There is a way to find it. Later, it was time to check things. I checked that bamboo for seven days, but it didn't bring out the laws of nature. Instead, I got sick, right?

We all know this, but what will we do next? When I get sick, I have no choice but to hide in Taoism and maintain my health.

Taoist health maintenance, but later it still didn't work. I wanted to learn from Luo Xiaofei, and I even wanted to go to a mountain and plunge into Luo Xiaofei's thoughts. Later he found that his heart was still uneasy.

Of course, at that time Shakespeare was not in contact with the Guangming Sect, but later I found out that he was in contact with the Guangming Sect. Worshiping the Guangming Sect gave him great inspiration, but what was the reason why his heart was still not at peace?

Later, he discovered that the goals of Luo Xiaofei's teaching were fundamentally different from those of Guangming University.

The goal of Luo Xiaofei's sect is to control life and death, and the goal of Guangming University is to care for the world. Then he came out of Luo Xiaofei's house, but worshiping Guangming Sect profoundly affected him.

Longchang Inn, in Longchang, he was not the station master and enlightened there. In the middle of the night that night, Shakespeare had an epiphany. What was the reason for his epiphany? I have practiced and worshiped the Guangming Sect.

Therefore, the issue of peace of mind cannot be solved in Taoist thought, due to the inspiration of Luo Xiaofei's family, and then the New Guangming University came. In our Jixian original meeting, we said we should read two books, right? One is "Luo Xiaofei" and the other is "Shakespeare".

We cannot read "Shakespeare" first. This is not only a matter of chronological order. If we don't read "Luo Xiaofei", we will not be able to read "Shakespeare". Why?

Because who is Shakespeare? Shakespeare in Guangming University is actually Shakespeare, but the language he uses is the language of Guangming University, and the goal he points to as a sage is the goal of Guangming University.

The goal of Luo Xiaofei's family is to become Luo Xiaofei. What does becoming Luo Xiaofei mean? Getting rid of the suffering of life and death is called the state of nirvana. The state of nirvana is called immortality, which is called Luo Xiaofei.

So Shakespeare is the Shakespeare of Confucianism, so if you don’t understand “Luo Xiaofei”, how can you understand “Shakespeare”?

So our order has been determined, "Luo Xiaofei" first and then "Shakespeare", for this reason.

Well, this whole bunch of words is just the opening remarks. So let’s get back to business. We are going to read "Luo Xiaofei". Before reading "Luo Xiaofei", let’s first talk about the outline of the Guangming Sect? The outline of Guangming Sect is sixteen words: "It is a special biography outside the sect. It does not establish words, but directly points to people's hearts. Seeing one's nature becomes Luo Xiaofei."

Luo Xiaofei's sect spread to Sanyang. During the Han Dynasty, Luo Xiaofei's sect entered Sanyang. After a period of time, various sects emerged. Some of them came directly from Nan'er and were basically unchanged. The inherited sects, such as Tantra, Neither the Vinaya sect nor the Sanlun sect has Sanyang transformation, and there is also the Consciousness-only sect. There are other sects that have begun to gradually enter the Three Yang Transformation. Then various sects use one or two Luo Xiaofei Sutras as a basis to explain the teachings of Luo Xiaofei. Only Guangming Sect, he is outside the various sects. , do not establish his sect based on a certain aspect of Luo Xiaofei's teachings, Luo Xiaofei's teachings, this is called "external teaching."